(Original post by Jeanlucpicard)
It's more than the Metro, granted, they are mediocre sources, yet others such as Express are saying similar.

It would cost £200mill AFTER tax cos barca would demand it.
His wages would be £20mill a year AFTER tax so a five year deal would be around £180mill.
The total cost of the deal would be above £400mill and chelsea do not make enough revenue as to afford that. Also Roman does not have as much money as he did before so the deal is not really possible. And this would breach FFP and they would get DQ'ed from the Champions League.
Basically, Metro and Daily Mail are the worst sources. Only believe Sky Sports imo for transfer rumors cos almost all of them are correct.

(Original post by alex2100x)
It's Messi we are talking about here (best on the planet). I honestly don't think that FFP will influence anything.

And City and PSG spent a fair amount last summer.

Of course this isn't implying that I think this deal will go ahead.

Chelsea have very little revenue to afford messi so FFP will cause them to not play in Champions League most likely if they get Messi. They will have to pay a fee for FFP and they cannot afford that hence the CL dq.

(Original post by Gaiaphage)
Why would buying Messi make Chelsea break FFP rules? According to (http://www.financialfairplay.co.uk/f...-explained.php) they're allowed to make a loss of £35m over 3 years - seeing as they're currently making a profit and shirt sales alone would be incredible I think it would be fairly easy to stay within the rules without selling many players. Torres alone brought £60m in shirt sales in the first year, add that to the Champions League earnings (partly) due to his winning goal vs Barcelona and he gave them a huge profit (ignoring wages)!

Signing messi would cost four times what it cost to sign Torres going by this article when you then factor in the fact that messi would be getting paid somewhere around 500k a week over those three years thats £278m excluding bonuses.

That figure for shirt sales likely includes the people who bought shirts and then got Torres printed on it, I would guess that a lot of those people would have bought shirts anyway so I doubt it would increase their revenue by £60m.

You can't expect to spend nearly £300m on a player and lose less than £35 especially when you consider they'd still probably sign more players over the next few years